Game



Aug. 16, p HQRN ET AL GAME Filed Oct. 16; 1930 2 Sheets-Sheet l Il F 5iNifiRs BY ATTORNEY 4 rl m 6 Aug. 16, 1932. R RN ET AL w 1,872,454

GAME

Filed Oct. 16, 1930 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 99 P0722 A rn 4 32 INVENTORS Z5 3133 BY ATTORNEY J In Patented Aug. 16, 1932 PETER Bonn AND FRANK zrrr,orBRoox YN, NEW YORK GAME Application filed October 16, 193d Serial n.489,092.

This invention relates to improvements in:

pastime games, and it is the principal ob ect of our invention toprovide a device for skill fully catapulting projectiles, as forinstance cone-shaped bodies of varying size having armored and weightedpoints into a plurality of openings in superposed plates, the openingsin one plate allowing the passage of cones of smaller diameter to becaught in the openings of the lower plate and the openings in the otherof said plates of a width tocatch and hold cone-shaped missiles of alarger diameter.

Another object of our invention is the provision of a device of thischaracter including a novel and improved means for catapulting thecone-shaped projectiles towards andinto the openings ofthe plates.

A further object of our invention is the provision of a catapultingdevice the movable or rebounding plate of which is equipped on its upperface with suitable seats foraccommodating conehaped projectiles of.smaller and larger diameters.

A still further object of our invention is the provision of a means forcatapulting projectiles including a movable plate normally held inelevated position by the coils of a looped wire engaging the undersideof the plate and allowing a compression upon the depression of saidplate, means being provided to hold the parts in their depressedposition and allowing a sudden rebound of the plate upwardly under. theaction of the 1 coils of said wire loop to catapult missiles towards acertain goal represented by perforated plates designated by numeralsaccording to the value of the slots in which hits are to be made.

These and other objects and advantages of our invention, will becomemore fully known as the description thereof proceeds and will then bespecifically defined in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings forming a material part of this disclosure:

Fig. 1 is a fragmentary perspectiveview of a device constructedaccording to our in vention, with the cover removed.

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Fig. 2 is aitop plan view of a cone receiving box.

"- Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section through the box on line 3-3'ofFigure 2.

Fig. 4 is a cross-section on Figure 2.- 1

Fig. 5 is a top plan view ofa box for catapulting the conesinto thereceiving box,1Figure 2. V i

Fig. 6 is a-section on line 6-45 of Figure 5.

Fig. 7 is a perspective detail view of a spring used for catapulting thecones.

' Fig; 8 is a detail sectional view of telescoped cones used with mydevice.

As illustrated on the drawings, a box 10 of any suitable material andshape is closed on top by a removable cover 11 and is divided by thepartition walls 12, 13, into a median large compartment and the endcompartments 14C and 15-for the convenient storage of the paraphernaliaof the game.

The central compartment of the box has line 44 of formed therein acompartment 16 closed at thet-op by means of a cover 17having formedtherein a plurality of openings 18.

Upon cover 17 is removably arranged, a box 19 having an open bottom anda top plate 20 formed with a plurality of openings 21 which areconsiderably larger than the openings 18 formed in the cover 17 but invertical alignment therewith. V V

The smaller openings in the cover 17 are designed to receive thearmoredand weighted Joints and ends of comparatively small cones 22 andto support the same intermediate their ends by. engaging their outermantle The larger openings-21 in top plate 20 are adapted to allow afree passage of the smallercones, and to receive the armored andweighted ends'or po1nts 23rof the larger cones'2 1 allowing theirpassage until their widening mantles are engaged bythe walls forming theopenings 21 and to support the same in the position illustrated inFigure 1.

f It will be clearthat the openings can be designated by appropriatenumbers X,'XX,

XXX,'etc., to indicate. the corresponding values of hits made by conescatapulted through and into the openings 21 and 18 The cones arecatapulted into the respective holes by means of a device comprising apreferably square box 25, in which a plate 26 is hingedly secured at oneend, as at 27, and normally kept in its elevated position by means of aspring member illustrated in Figure 7 forming a wire loop- 28, theconnecting member of the branches of which is covered by a roller 29engaging the lower face of plate 26 while the free ends of the wire arecoiled intermediate their ends as indicated at 30 and 31 respectivelyand their outer extremities are guided and held in eyes 32 on a plate 33attached to the bottom of the box.-

A flat wire 34 has its outer end' formed into a: handle 35 and extendsthrough an opening in the end wall of the box into the same, in'wliichit is bent, as at 36 and inclined upwardly having its endattachedto the inner face: oftheend wall of box 25, as at 37 the bend 86normally engaging the upper endof a plate 26 to; hold the same in itsdepressed position;

The upper face of the plate 26 carriesnear its outer end; a smaller seat38 for the lower ends of the smaller cones and a larger seat 39 for thelower ends of the larger cones. The operation'of our devicewillbeentirely clear from the above description by simultaneousreference-to the drawings, and 'it will be evident, that when oneof thesmaller cones is placed on seat 38, and the plate 26 is depressedagainst the action of spring 28 compressing the same and held'in thisposition by means of the inner bend- 36 of wire 34 andthe wire is pulledoutwardly by the handle 35, bend or shoulder 36'will give the end of theplate free and the spring will expand and catapultthe cone through oneof the larger openings 21 tobe caught in the smaller openings 18 belowif the player has used the necessary skill. The same is 'true withrespect of catapulting the larger cones from seat 39-into openings 21.The compartments l4 and 15 are adapted forthe-storage of the'box 25 andthe cones 22 and 241 conveniently telescoped.

It 1 Will be understood that we have described andshown: the preferredform of our device only as-oneexample ofthe many possible Ways topractically construct thesame,

and that we, may make such changes in the general arrangementofthedevice'and in the construction of the minor details thereof ascomeiwithin the scope of the appendedclaims withoutdepa-rture from'thespirit of our inventionand the principles involved. Having, thusdescribed-our invention, What we claim as'new and desireto secure'byLetters Patent-is:

1, In a-' device of'the class described,-a box, acover hingedly secured:in said box atone end, a wire loop includingcoils tendingtonormally'hold-said cover in its elevatedzpo'sitiomal lowing a depression: ofthe same against: the action of said coils, a flat spring havingan innershoulder engaging the front end of said cover to keep the same in itsdepressed position, and a handle allowing an outwardly directed pull onsaid spring to disengage its shoulder from said cover to rebound thesame upwardly under the action of the expanding coils of the loop tocatapult projectiles on said cover. 1 i.

2. In a game apparatus, a means for cata pulting objects of varyingdiameters onto a target, saidmeans' comprising a box a plate hingedlysecured at one end within said box, a seat for the larger objects formedonsaid plate, at one end thereof, a seat for smaller objectsconcentrical to said first named seat, acoiled wirel'oop carrying rolleron-"its connecting branch:

engaging the lower face of. said plate, a plate attached to the bottomof the box, carrying eyes. to hold the lower parallel branches of saidwire loop against said bottom plate, and a trigger arrangement of flatwire attached at one end to'the upper part of the inner end wall of saidbox, above said plate, a knee formedof said-flat it in depressed?position with the upper branches of the wire loop tensioned against thelower branches thereof, and a handle formed on said flat wire extendingoutof said box: for pulling the knee tofdisengageit fromsaid'platetoexpandsaid wire loop and project the-outer end'rof said:

plate upwardly for catapulting the obj ectson the seat thereon towardsthe target.

Signed at New York, in the-county of New York, and state of New York,this 11thday of October, A. D. 1930'. 1

i FRAN-K' ZIPPI wire intermediate the endsthereofnormally en gaging saidplate to hold partoutwardly.

PETER HoRNL I

